CMST 370 Chapter 7: CH 7 Power & Resistance at Work
4 Nov 2016
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Perspectives on power & organizations: power= defining feat. of all social relations. Power-as-influ. occ. when psychological change takes place in person/persons being influ. All forms of power are relational: power: exercised thru dynamic process in which relations of interdependence exist between actors in org. settings* Not a thing that someone in auth. can possess. No one is w/out power: history of power. Pluralists power equitably distrib. throughout society & no partic. group had undue influ. over decision-making processes: one-dimensional view of power. Elitists power concentrated in hands of privileged few who controlled pol. agendas: two-dimensional view of power. The one-dimensional model of power (pluralist: robert dahl. Power a has power over b to the extent that he/she can get b to do so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g b (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t other(cid:449)ise do. The two-dimensional model of power (elitist: criticism of one-dimensional model. Too simplistic/unable to capture full complexity of how power works in society: peter bachrach & morton baratz.
